McKenzie's Friend
  • Published: 31 December 2012
  • ISBN: 9781448162192
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 256

McKenzie's Friend

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A thoroughly engaging depiction of a spy dragged back into a world of secrets and disguise.

Harry Fielding has had enough. He's had enough of his adopted city, and he's tired of his flat, which smells of gas and longing. Most of all though he's finished with meeting civil servants in motorway cafes at two in the morning, he's finished with MI5.

But his plans for a new life are ruined when an old friend reappears, Alfie, the crooked policeman. He's in trouble, and Harry, who wants to leave everything behind, cannot abandon a mate. Besides, Alfie's wife, Ruth, all long fingers and perfect belly, is also anxious to see Harry again.
  • Published: 31 December 2012
  • ISBN: 9781448162192
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 256
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About the author

Philip Davison

Philip Davison has written for radio, stage and television, and has published seven novels, including The Crooked Man which was dramatised on ITV. His most recent novel, A Burnable Town, was published in 2006. He lives in Dublin.

Praise for McKenzie's Friend

Davison shares Beckett’s knack for making the down-at-the-heel appear surreal

Times Literary Supplement

The world of McKenzie's Friend is an unsettling place, half nightmare, half reality, funny but also terrifying. And Harry Fielding, the narrator, is a gem. World-weary and clueless, knowing and blind, he's the perfect escort through this memorable and very accomplished book

Roddy Doyle

Chilly, elegant and disconcertingly comic. Rather like a collaboration between two noteable Green(e)s - Graham and Henry- and quite safely described as original

Literary Review

A subtle undercurrent of humour... well-written... wierd

Time Out